The Promise Neighborhoods program is a competitive grant program that strives to significantly improve the educational and developmental outcomes of children and youth in our most distressed communities, and to transform those communities. This Fiscal Year funding is will be given to projects that support teh development of a continuum of cradle through career solutions designed to result in positive outcomes for children and youth. Applications should seek to significantly improve the academic and developmental outcomes of children living in the most distressed communities of the United States, including ensuring school readiness, high school graduation, and access to a community-based continuum of high-quality services.